Emily Benfit

READ THIS Before Making Homemade Laundry Soap. Homemade laundry detergent is aaaalll over everywhere these days. Have you noticed how many tutorials on Pinterest there are for DIY laundry soap? It’s crazy. I mean, it makes sense why these homemade detergent recipes have become so popular—it’s dirt cheap! Laundry detergent costing $0.02 a load? And with simple,…

And… oh yeah, I’m due like any day now. Sorry. I’ve kinda been hiding in a hole this entire 8 1/2 months. (I was only about 28 weeks in that photo—I’m 39 weeks now!) But I thought I’d give a better-late-than-never update on how this whole journey has been going, and share some thoughts on…

“All who know the pure product and use it with understanding come to respect the essential oils. One cannot but admire their ability to operate effectively not only on the cellular, physical level, but in the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic areas of our lives also. If anything in this world is holistic, it is…

“All who know the pure product and use it with understanding come to respect the essential oils. One cannot but admire their ability to operate effectively not only on the cellular, physical level, but in the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic areas of our lives also. If anything in this world is holistic, it is…

I had someone ask me the other day if I knew of any natural bee sting treatments—being the crunchy little hippie chick I am, she figured I’d have an answer. Well, I’ve only been stung by a bee twice in my life, the last time being a few years ago, somewhat prior to my full-blown…

Ready for summer to start? I guess that’s a lame question. Ready for fall or winter? Yeah not always. But everyone’s down for summer, right? We’ve had an unusually warm and sunny spring here in the Pacific northwest and it feels like summer already started several weeks ago. I’ve been busting out my ice cream machine,…

YOU GUYS. This is a big day for me. I’ve been talking about how I’ve been wanting to start to maybe try to begin to attempt a podcast for like, oh I don’t know 28 years. Yeah, I think I wanted a podcast when I was a toddler suckin’ on my mama’s boob. I mean,…

“That’s it. I’m buying a popsicle mold.” …my immediate reaction upon seeing the forecast this week for 80+ degree weather. ALL week. This is the Pacific Northwest. In May. A week of summer-weather is cause for serious celebration. And obviously popsicles. So, two days later, these bad boys showed up on my doorstep: And it was…

I’m kind of the last person who should be running a home-based business. I’m extremely disorganized, a master procrastinator, have an attention span that your average five-year-old could easily rival (and the patience to match), and also exceptionally poor time management skills. Why is this a problem when you’re a blogger and a book…

[VIDEO TUESDAY: Every week, I’ll be sharing a fun or interesting video related to food and/or natural health that I’ve found milling about on the interwebz. I figured it was about time I did something useful with all the hours I waste browsing YouTube—actually share the cool stuff I find with you guys! Enjoy.] How…